With optical communications advancing at a rapid pace, equipment requirements are vast and ever-changing. It is critical that an OMA system be scalable to address tomorrow’s modulation formats and data rates. Rather than a monolithic, restrictive instrument, the Teledyne LeCroy OMA solution is a set of building blocks that can be easily upgraded and supplemented to address future test challenges.

Cost-effective 100G Analysis with the IQS25

As 100G technologies move into the commercial mainstream, requirements for cost-effective testing of 28 – 32 Gbaud components are growing. Teledyne LeCroy addresses this with the combination of the LabMaster 10-25Zi-A and the IQS25 25 GHz optical modulation analyzer, providing the most complete 100G characterization at an extremely competitive price.

Seamless System Architecture

The Teledyne LeCroy IQS Coherent Optical Receivers leverage a system architecture that allows pairing of the coherent optical receiver with any compatible Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscope without any factory calibration. All required calibrations are built into Coherent Receiver and performed at the time of measurement. This architecture also enables the easiest upgrade path in the industry –add an additional or faster acquisition module to the oscilloscope, connect the IQS receiver, and resume analysis!

Seamless Multi-Module Configuration

Teledyne LeCroy’s ChannelSync™ architecture ensures superior timing accuracy, by design. Using a single 10 GHz distributed clock for all acquisition modules enables the lowest jitter between all channels, the simplest integration and connection and the highest confidence in results. The single oscilloscope display gives easy access to all channels and analysis results, regardless of the number of acquisition modules.

Seamless Software Integration

Optical-LinQ is an intuitive and fully integrated software package for analysis of optically modulated signals. It runs entirely within the user interface of the LabMaster 10Zi-A. No other OMA on the market offers such integrated control of both oscilloscope and coherent receiver.

Optical-LinQ provides fully automated control of the IQS receiver, phase recovery algorithms, polarization demultiplexing, as well as an exhaustive number of modulation analysis displays and parameters.